Will Lagos Ever Be Like Abuja?

having lived in Lagos all my life,and knowing what Abuja has turn into in the last ten years, will there ever be two or more paradise in Nigeria.why can't Lagos be like Abuja for 40 years? 

why can't lagos be like abuja,i think lagos can be like abuja

it will be very difficult for lagos to be like abuja, Since it has no planning from the start!!!

Furthermore i think the lagos gov is more interested in places like V.I, Ikoyi, Alausa, The King's Palace and some other higbrow Areas

Ajegunle 

Lagos  Like Abuja??!!
is it in terms of traffic, population,dirtyness or noise(whc. incls that coming for generatos these days )
If there is a possiblity is will be in the range of 30-35% _{*my view*}

i don't want to change the question but whats should be on our mind would Abuja ever become like Lagos??  I don't think lagos can ever look like abuja

It is really not fair to compare Lagos with Abuja.First, Abuja gets more funds for development than Lagos, even though there are may be ten times more people in Lagos than Abuja.
Lagos is perhaps the smallest state in Nigeria in terms of land and it is bursting on all fronts into ogun and beni republic.

Lagos has its characteristics.It will never be like Abuja except you drive almost everybody away from the state and spend bilions of money building roads and offices.

lagos wont be like abuja, not because it can't be, but because the leaders there so far don't have the foresight.  but with more parck and greeny, lagos should be even better

Kbstar are you show you werent looking at my Exercise book when I was writing my idea down?

Yes it can be the same if not better, 

after all it's just another city. Forget about where the money has gone in the past, there is only so much money that can be spent on a city (I said spent not stolen). I strongly believe in people power so in my view it's left to the people of the cities to help try make it better.

Lagos will certainly follow the city model of Abuja just like other cities in the world. People keep talking about overcrowding in Lagos, I agree that is a real problem at present. What did Tokyo do to assist with the dense population in the city? Build tower blocks!!! What do you think they will do in Lagos? Yep you've got it, they will build more tower blocks. Pollution is an issue yes, the pollution from the cars alone is horrendous. The government will eventually wake up to that and insist on MOT's etc.

Sure, Lagos can be like Abuja. Solution is very simple: Raze it to the ground and build it from the ground up.  Of course, if you do that, then the next question would be "can Abuja be like Lagos?" since Lagos would have been built using the technologies present at the time, which of course Abuja wouldn't have access to, having been built years ago.

In the end, we are back answering the question over and over again, and we are stuck in an endless loop of "Can, ever be like, ?"

In its hey day, Lagos was da bomb.  As the name of a popular night bus company goes, "D young shall grow"

, and that's my 2 cents

LAGOS fit no be like abuja but that doesnt rep lagos abeg
this is lagos

abuja will soon be like lagos

@diyobdw

  Thanks for trying to stand up for Lagos but that pic of Tinubu square must be OOOOOOOOLD!

You can not see those fountains today.

As for the topic, it never ceases to amaze me how people start threads with upside down questions on this board. It obviously works because I visited this thread to see if people were actually discussing if Lagos would look like Abuja. As I suspected, the silly question has caught everyone correcting the author that it is the other way around.

BTW notice that the person who started the thread put his location in his profile as London and meanwhile says he has lived in Lagos all his life. Which one is it?

Old Glory

The fountain (and the whole area) has been taken over by hawkers who have constructed ramshackle stalls. It is an eyesore actually.

Lets be honest, the story is symbolic of the whole of Lagos. The rest of the country is converging on it and hustling is taking its toll. It is beyond alarming.

Lagos can be like Abuja and has long has Tinubu and OBJ are in power the Gap between the two cities in cleanliness and other factors closes up. Only thing is Tinubu is going to use some Mugabe style brutality .Wath Lagos needs is a few lessons from singapore(too much rules) and Zimbabwe( brutal rules) Abuja watch out -----kosibiki bi eko----------

Lagos can be like Abuja if the political will and vision are there. Without one or the other, forget it. Do y'all know how New York was once upon a time?